On Tu B’Shvat 5785, Adamah announced a three-year, $3 million dollar investment in Adamah’s climate work from the newly launched Jewish Climate Trust (JCT), a new think-and-do tank co-chaired by Stephen Bronfman and Michael Sonnenfeldt. At the helm as CEO is Nigel Savage, founder of Hazon.
This is far and away the largest grant that has ever been given to fund climate work within the Jewish community. Working together, Adamah and JCT hope to leverage this moment to unlock unprecedented philanthropic support and communal engagement in Jewish climate action moving forward.
Jewish Climate Trust’s mission is to catalyze Jewish climate action in Israel and the Diaspora, at pace and at scale.
Learn more here about how JCT plans to mobilize wealth, wisdom, and networks to effect change.
This visionary investment will grow Adamah’s impact in several key areas:
We will build upon the data we have gathered from Adamah’s Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition (now over 400 members!) in order to create a Roadmap to Decarbonize Jewish Life, laying out a bold 10+ year plan to decarbonize Jewish institutions and households across North America.
To implement the Roadmap, we will catalyze dramatic growth in our Adamah Climate Action Fund to accelerate the pace of change by funding institutional greening projects nationwide.
We will also invest in Multifaith Partnerships, mobilizing the Adamah network in key coalition-building initiatives with allied faith communities, locally and nationally.
We will launch the Jewish Green Business Network, connecting Jewish green business leaders worldwide, supporting students and young professionals, and accelerating our collective impact both within the Jewish world and beyond.
“All my life I’ve been involved in the Jewish community; involved in the environment; and involved in philanthropy. Michael and Nigel and I, and our other stakeholders, believe that now is a time that we all need to raise our game on climate. So I’m proud to be launching Jewish Climate Trust; proud of this grant to Adamah; and excited to see this work grow in impact in the coming months and years.” – Stephen Bronfman
